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TIMEOFDAY function

TIMEOFDAY is a special alias used to return the weekday, date, and time as a string value. It returns the time of day string for the current statement, even when it is within a transaction block.

Syntax

TIMEOFDAY()

Return type

VARCHAR

Examples

The following example returns the current date and time by using the TIMEOFDAY function.

select timeofday();

timeofday
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